even thou i don't have a surfing sup at present, all the talk of great waves last week got me thinking about which sups i had handled it the best

my best was the psh 8'9 comp lite ripper. it was really comfortable in those parts of a wave.

next was a 8' 10 dc swallow tail. it was the best bigger wave board i've had.

what your best

cheers

It was my 9.3 mct UFO on a remote Island off the coast up north.
The locals called it 8 I called it 10 but anyway it was hollow kick
your arse serious sh-t,oh dam this is the sup forum,sorry

Oh yeh,Lacey the real answer is anything if you have the skill

Narrow rockered thin rails

Hi Laceys Lane,
Did you ride the psh 8-9 as a quad or thruster in barrelling waves? If you used both set ups which did you like best? What conditions suited either set up?
Div

Mark, you need to take my 8'6 DMS for a spin sometime, I think you'd be blown away.

CMC said...


Mark, you need to take my 8'6 DMS for a spin sometime, I think you'd be blown away.

What is the width of it?

Not quite a barrel but the Naish Hokua loves these sucky sections! and has my vote for being one of the best SUPs for hollow waves.





Luke

Best SUP boards for barrel riding for me have been my 2 guns, the one I took to the Maldives last year but broke a few weeks later, and my new DTM 9'1" gun. Old one was 27 1/2" wide very narrow tail, new one 27 3/4" same width tail but much thinner rails.

The Maldives was an eye opener for me as to how well a suitable designed SUP can ride the barrel, as it was so consistent allowing for 10 + barrels each session. This meant you could muck around with trim and positioning as it is a lot more suptle on a SUP. The key design ingredient is reduction of area overall, in the middle and particularly on the tail, combined with decent rocker, so the thing can fit into the curves associated with tube riding.

Had one of the better SUP barrels I have had so far - this morning on a solid 2x overhead freight train at one of our local reefs - the new gun just held its line beautifully and came screaming out

The 8'5 Starboard seems to work for me.

rahams said...

i reckon im on a 95% fail rate on getting barreled on any sup.
and thats on trying for the last two years.
the 5% success is just luck .

Same here, with even less luck, so the best board for the barrel for me would be an... inflatable, to keep my teeth as long as possible ;-)

Joking aside, I bought myself proteck (rubber edged) fins for hollow days...

ODSUP said...

My fav is my Dc 8.8 got my first barrel on it 3 weeks ago

Yeah OD, the DC 8'8" squeezes in there quite well (especially when wearing a suit):



The Stand Sure 8'2" Fiber Flex goes OK in the pit too:

Best board to get in the barrell is the best board to get out of the barrell. Simple!
Unless you are surfing overhead pits that board is pretty much going to resemble a scaled up shortboard, low rails, pulled in nose and tail. Not saying it cant be done on anything else, just not deep and with consistancy.
Cheers
Sparx